Draft:Failure to nominate (elections)
In a fiasco the HQ of the Liberal Party of Australia (LPA) failed to process the nominations in time for the oncoming Local Government elections.
Examples
[edit]Two examples come to mind:
- 1974 - Harry Jago
- 2024 LPA [1]
Failure to nominate is less of a problem if you have Preferential Voting (IRV) because if there are number of independent or minor party candidates, the unnominated party can direct its 2nd preferences to its choice of friendly parties. ----MountVic127 (talk) 20:48, 15 August 2024 (UTC)
This happened with Harry Jago in 1973.
United States of America
[edit]In some states of America "write-in" votes are allowed where voters write the name of their prefererred candidate on the ballot paper. A problem might arise if there are two Joe Blows. Sometimes the write-in cadidate actually wins. Maybe Australian Ballots should also allow write-in votes
Death or Stroke or Nomination Failure
[edit]Election systems may or may not have special rules in case of death or life-threatening-illness of candidates.
IRV can have independent or minor parties safely on the ballot paper until the last minute.
Rather than having complicated rules for death, etc., one could rely on "de minimis" and use your Commonsense.
Wikipedia's IRV article dealings regarding death or illness or nomination failures are conspicuous by their absence [2]
Extension of Time
[edit]The embattled NSW Liberal Party president Don Harwin has requested the NSW Electoral Commission to grant an extension of time of seven days to finish the nomination process [3]
- Does the Electoral law allow such extenssions; it might after all be delayed by, say, a flood or a postal strike?
- Does "de minimis" apply so that Common sense applies?
In the event the extension was denied [4]
Bungle
[edit]Newspapers in Sydney ( Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) and Daily Telegraph (SDT) ) have page long articles about this bungle, do not seem to mention that IRV may compensate.
The ABC reported something similar. [5]
Blunder partially overcome
[edit]- Assume that Liberal Party still hands out how-to-vote card.
- Interview remaining candidates for their views. Since one (more if Local Councils have several) of them are likely to be elected, expect co-operation.
- Prepare those how-to-vote cards.
- Decide preference allocation.
- Thus Blunder partially overcome. :-) :-) :-) :-)
- The Blundering party should advertise its how to vote cards in the local and state newspapers. Also other media.